Isometric art has a very strict set of rules when it comes to what goes where. It's pretty difficult to sit down and draw yourself, but when it comes to Photoshop, you can create a guide for anything. In this London-inspired image, we're going to set out a perfect isometric grid before we build a city of letters, using the Pen tool, selections and layers in Photoshop.

Making typography appear as though it's reflected in the surface it's sitting on isn't complicated. It is, however, a little more complex to make it look convincing within the environment that it's placed in. In this tutorial we'll run through how to use Adobe InDesign to quickly create an environment for your type to sit in that follows the basic rules of directional light.

Photoshop CC includes the ability to add multiple instances of the same layer style to a single layer. This is especially helpful when it comes to create text effects. This tutorial shows you a quick way to add long shadows to your text while still retaining the ability to edit it quickly.

In this tutorial, Chris Spooner shows you how to create retro typography using the fills and strokes within Illustrator’s Appearance panel. These trendy letters have a faux 3D appearance and are fully editable.

This short, step-based Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to generate duotone text. Using a texture image, a gradient map, some adjustment layers and filters, you’ll learn how to create this trendy effect in five short steps.

This tutorial by Chris Spooner explains how to create typography inspired by the film title styles of old black-and-white movies. Using the 3D capabilities of Photoshop CS6 and Photoshop CC, he adds sophisticated lighting and shading to these retro letterforms.

If you want to bling up your typography, follow this Adobe Illustrator tutorial by illustrator Karol Gadzala. Step by step, she explains how to extrude type in 3D, apply metallic materials to give it a golden sheen, and add gems, sparkles and gleams.

Chrome text effects are the '80s and '90s style that time forgot. But these retro looks are now making a comeback. Follow this tutorial to learn how to produce a similar retro style metallic text effect in Adobe Illustrator.

45. Create custom type designs in Illustrator

This Adobe Illustrator tutorial demonstrates how to create a custom typography design. It looks like it’s been lettered by hand, but it’s actually created by customising ready-made fonts with clever OpenType features.

Photoshop textures are a great way to mimic the aesthetics of old prints and handmade art and give your digital designs more of a tactile appearance. In this tutorial, Chris Spooner explains three ways you can distress your logos and text, each resulting in a slightly different appearance.

Learn how to create a blueprint text effect in Adobe Illustrator. This tutorial shows you how to combine simple strokes, basic blending mode techniques and a variety of Transform effects to create this impressive look to your lettering.

Many text effect tutorials for Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop require the text to be permanently set, so if the wording needs changing, you have to be start again from scratch. In this tutorial, Chris Spooner reveals some useful tricks for creating a graphic style that works with live text.

This tutorial teaches you how to create a celebration candles text effect in Adobe Illustrator. After setting up a simple grid and creating a subtly patterned background, you will learn how to create the main text shapes using a free font and some basic blending and grouping techniques, warp effects and subtle textures and shading.

This tutorial walks you through the process of creating a decorative letter in Adobe Illustrator with a range of vector embellishments. The techniques you learn here can then be applied to all sorts of illustration projects in the future.

This tutorial is inspired by the vibrant text effect from the trailer for the movie Suicide Squad. As you’re walked through the creation of a similar effect, you’ll discover how to design 3D typography within Photoshop, and make use various lighting effects to illuminate your design with bright colours.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create cool portrait effect using a long passage of text that bends and deforms around the contours of the face. Known as a Calligram, this supercool effect is created using Photoshop’s Displace filter.